Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org
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Open Source Technologist with the OER Foundation - I blog about OERs and free and open source tech for delivering them on https://tech.oeru.org.
Joined Apr 2017
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Wanna learn about #OER and Creative Commons? It's free, open source and good opportunity to explore #OERu's #PLE. New cohort starts this week. Join us: https://oer.nz/lida103eoi #OEP
@jimt wow. Fascinating. And yeah, like hummingbirds and turtles (and snakes) I miss lightning bugs in NZ... not much else, though, to be fair.
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I get frustrated when people in industries who could benefit hugely from better use of tech bemoan the inequity in tech (I agree!) but justify their own inaction & non-participation (or defend persisting with crappy corporate proprietary software that tramples their interests) by saying adapting & learning is "too hard"... It especially bugs me to hear educators say this... sure, learning *is* hard. If it was easy... we wouldn't need educators. Get involved now to make it easier for others!
Ok, we're back with Mastodon 2.8.4, but I need to tidy up one thing, so it's going to go down briefly again...
For everyone paying attention to this server - I'll shortly be doing an upgrade to it... so be forewarned if/when it stops responding (very briefly, I hope).
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RT @paulbrislen@twitter.com
GCSB boss Andrew Hampton warns against local election online voting | Newshub https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/gcsb-boss-andrew-hampton-warns-against-local-election-online-voting.html
Look what arrived today... My second copy of Charlie Reisinger's great story, The Open Schoolhouse. It's essential reading for anyone in secondary education & *vital* for anyone making digital learning decisions.
@rabindra hello, and welcome!
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Dreaming of fierce confrontations... https://peertube.video/videos/watch/b91a35bb-6073-4827-800f-7afde8160496
Jeremy's a lovely fellow... if you're in Chch and want clever jewellery - and he always has time and a kind word for dogs, including letting them test out his own dog transport system (for his very large, lovely Bernese Mountain dog, Ruby) including our Luna :)
@simonnewood stapler? :)
@mackiwg No idea. Looks like a skinny stretched kiwi statue, but pretty sure that's not right...
@mackiwg I know what this one is... wouldn't want to be a nearby penguin.
@mackiwg looks like ice between brush steel... but possibly something quite small... otherwise, nothing's leaping to mind! Cool, though.
Hello all on mastodon.oeru.org - we've just done an upgrade to version 2.7.4 - push notifications should also be working better, and a few places where "styles" were wonky should now be working correctly...
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Most NZ schools have a "BYOD" programme for student-provided devices. The gov't has got this "free" Microsoft Office365 licensing as a perk of paying many $millions/year for an all-of-gov't agreement: https://education.govt.nz/school/running-a-school/technology-in-schools/software/microsoft/ Schools are starting to require MSO365 for students... but it doesn't run on all devices (Linux comps or Chromebooks). This creates a major problem with BYOD policies: the schools don't know what they're doing & students are being disadvantaged by their legit tech choices.
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What's more, the Min of Ed, with this MSO365 "free" license programme is creating a huge imposition upon all students. Their digital works/creativity is being locked into a set of formats that can only be reliably read by MS-blessed software, which is because MS controls the formats & changes them at their whim (often to set back would-be competitors who're trying to offer compatibility). Our gov't is effectively (probably out of ignorance) mandating the of one foreign megacorp's software.
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Open Source Technologist with the OER Foundation - I blog about OERs and free and open source tech for delivering them on https://tech.oeru.org.
Joined Apr 2017
